Exact charge-conserving scatter-gather algorithm for particle-in-cell simulations on unstructured grids: a geometric perspective

DOI10.1016/j.cpc.2015.04.014zbMath1344.65096arXiv1409.0854OpenAlexW2072859965MaRDI QIDQ312805

Haksu Moon, Fernando L. Teixeira, Yuri A. Omelchenko

Publication date: 9 September 2016

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0854

zbMATH Keywords

finite elementsdifferential formsunstructured gridsparticle-in-cell (PIC)scatter-gatherWhitney forms

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